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June 2017 - present IBM, Austin, TX
Software architect and team leader focused on on improving developer productivity in one of IBM's several hundred person large development organizations creating Watson cognitive services for IBM's Cloud platform.
I provide technical and architectural direction, team leadership, strategy for creating and operating a hosted self-service Continuous Integration and Delivery (CI/CD) platform. This platform enables developers on one of IBM Watson's development organizations to build, test, and deploy containerize Kubernetes applications to IBM's Cloud thousands of times a month.
2015 - June 2017, IBM, Austin, TX
Accelerate engineering teams transformation to contemporary Cloud Native development on IBM Bluemix Cloud through boot-camp training, coaching, consulting, technical assistance.
- 50% productivity increase in many engineering teams by reducing distractions, automating CI & CD
- 25-75% increase in frequency of delivery to production by working in small batches, microservices, deployment automation
- Months shaved off initial delivery by organizing into self-contained squads around value capability, removing dependencies, and communication paths
- Created and delivered content and exercises for DevOps and Cloud Native engineering boot-camps. Content covered Pair-programming, Test Driven and Behavior Driven Development, Test Automation Strategy, Continuous Integration, Delivery, Deployment, microservices, monitoring, metrics, Squad/Tribe organization design, circuit-breakers, design for failure, and etc.
- Recognized with an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award for sharing DevOps expertise in the development of the IBM Bluemix Garage Method
2010 - 2015, IBM, Austin, TX
Program Director of software development team on IBM's flagship enterprise J2EE WebSphere Application Server.
- Led a 100 person development team, 5 managers, and 3 architects responsible for the architecture, implementation, build, testing, documentation, user interface, and customer support for multiple releases of the security, system administration, web services, user interface, and public/private cloud hypervisor images of WebSphere Application Server
- 40% build time improvement through refactoring and improving build automation with virtualization, hardware and software upgrades which improved the productivity of the entire WebSphere development team
- 15% YoY reduction in customer opened tickets by investing in improving serviceability of high ticket component areas that enable customers to self-help themselves
2003 - 2010, IBM, Austin, TX
Senior software development manager on WebSphere Application Server.
- Led security and web services teams developing new features related to OAuth, SAML, Open ID Connect, JAX-RS, Apache Axis2, Apache Wink
- Led security team to first WebSphere Common Criteria security certification which enabled the product to compete in industries where Common Criteria is a requirement
- Reduced cycle time by 77% as a leader on the Agile transformation of the 400+ person WebSphere Application Server product development team.
- Recognized with IBM Outstanding Software Group Management award for people leadership
IBM, Austin, TX
Pervasive Software, Austin, TX
Certified Scrum Master | Agile | DevOps | Team Leadership | Agile and DevOps Transformation | Continuous Integration and Delivery | Cloud Native Engineering | Microservices | Docker | Python | Jenkins | Kanban | IBM Bluemix Cloud | Test Automation | GitHub | ZenHub | Vagrant | J2EE | Agile Estimating and Planning
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University of Houston-Clear Lake, Master of Science (MS), Software Engineering
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Texas State University, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science
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